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Selenium Framework Design in Data-Driven Testing

By : Carl Cocchiaro
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Selenium Framework Design in Data-Driven Testing

By: Carl Cocchiaro

Overview of this book

The Selenium WebDriver 3.x Technology is an open source API available to test both Browser and Mobile applications. It is completely platform independent in that tests built for one browser or mobile device, will also work on all other browsers and mobile devices. Selenium supports all major development languages which allow it to be tied directly into the technology used to develop the applications. This guide will provide a step-by-step approach to designing and building a data-driven test framework using Selenium WebDriver, Java, and TestNG. The book starts off by introducing users to the Selenium Page Object Design Patterns and D.R.Y Approaches to Software Development. In doing so, it covers designing and building a Selenium WebDriver framework that supports both Browser and Mobile Devices. It will lead the user through a journey of architecting their own framework with a scalable driver class, Java utility classes, JSON Data Provider, Data-Driven Test Classes, and support for third party tools and plugins. Users will learn how to design and build a Selenium Grid from scratch to allow the framework to scale and support different browsers, mobile devices, versions, and platforms, and how they can leverage third party grids in the Cloud like SauceLabs. Other topics covered include designing abstract base and sub-classes, inheritance, dual-driver support, parallel testing, testing multi-branded applications, best practices for using locators, and data encapsulation. Finally, you will be presented with a sample fully-functional framework to get them up and running with the Selenium WebDriver for browser testing. By the end of the book, you will be able to design your own automation testing framework and perform data-driven testing with Selenium WebDriver.
Table of Contents (15 chapters)
Title Page
Dedication
Packt Upsell
Contributors
Preface

IntelliJ IDEA Selenium plugin


When we covered building page object classes earlier, we discussed how to define the locators on a page for each WebElement or MobileElement using the @findBy annotations. That required the user to use one of the Inspectors or plugins to view the DOM structure and handcode a robust locator that is cross-platform safe.

Now, when using CSS and XPath locators, the hierarchy of the element can get complex, and there is a greater chance of building invalid locators. So, Perfect Test has come up with a Selenium plugin for the IntelliJ IDEA that will find and create locators on the fly.

Before discussing some of the features of the plugin, let's review where this is located.

Note

The IntelliJ IDEA Selenium plugin is developed by (c) 2017 Perfect Test and is located at www.perfect-test.com.

Sample project files

There are instructions on the www.perfect-test.com site for installing the plugin and once that is done, users can create a new project using a sample template, which...